HueComb

Lunar Landing

#d2cfc1

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#d2cfc1

RGB

210, 207, 193

OKLCh

85.3% 0.019 96.9°

CIELAB (D50)

83.1, -0.7, 7.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 31 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 11% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.8; on black, Lc -77.3. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.44:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.44:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a776a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#d2cfc1

protanopia

#cfcfc1 · ΔE00 1.6

deuteranopia

#d0d0c1 · ΔE00 1.6

tritanopia

#d0d0b7 · ΔE00 4.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSedate Grey at ΔE00 0.675: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sedate GreyΔE00 0.675 · #d1cdbf
  • SawgrassΔE00 0.707 · #d1cfc0
  • Clay BeigeΔE00 0.742 · #d5d1c3
  • MuslinΔE00 0.749 · #d3d1c4
  • TurnstoneΔE00 0.859 · #d3cfbf
  • Silver BirchΔE00 1.248 · #d2cfc4
  • Barest HushΔE00 1.297 · #d5d3c7
  • StaticΔE00 1.326 · #d5d3c3
  • Metallic MistΔE00 1.327 · #cdccbe
  • Soy MilkΔE00 1.469 · #d5d2c7
  • Bay SaltΔE00 1.471 · #d2cdbc
  • White DuckΔE00 1.482 · #cecaba

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.